WORTH NOTING; Yes, Forrester Lost, But He Also Won

By DAVID W. CHEN

Published: March 26, 2006

When Douglas R. Forrester announced more than a year ago that he was seeking the Republican nomination for governor, he mentioned that he did so only after getting the green light from his daughter, Briana, who had been ailing because of a brain hemorrhage and Hodgkin's disease. These days, Mr. Forrester is back at the pharmacy benefits management firm he founded, BeneCard, and his daughter has recovered so much that she enrolled at The College of New Jersey in January. Ms. Forrester, 19, is taking classes in nursing and writing, and ''she's very committed to giving back to the nurses who saved her life,'' said her mother, Andrea Forrester, who attended a fund-raising event Monday night for the United States Senate candidacy of State Senator Thomas H. Kean Jr. DAVID W. CHEN